Last night i had this dream, as i sometimes do, that im in a secret practice facility watching u2 rehearse behind locked doors. Its a large room that has a tiny scale stage with a small pit i think. Maybe its as big as a high school gymnasium, and they have a mini-claw in there. But its definitely a closed room...albeit a big one. So im in there in the pit watching u2 play new songs for the upcoming tour. What strikes me about the dream is how i automatically knew what the songs were even though i had never heard them before. One of them was "Every Breaking Wave", which sounded absolutely amazing. It was like Magnificent, except it really went somewhere instead of repeating the same chorus over and over again. And im a big fan of Magnificent.....but this song in my dream was like....oh yeah its the song you could hear as you pass from this world to the next. It brought new amazing colors to life. There's a ghost watching me as i type these words. It was the snow capped peak reflecting on the clear still lake with the brilliant sunset as a backdrop, with all the colors of the sky painted as blue and pink and orange in a nice mix of heaven and creation.
Edge kept playing his part as he walked around the ramp. Finally he noticed me, stopped and reached his hand out to me with the nicest smile. He called me "buddy" and asked how i was doing, and what i thought about the new song(s). I was blown away. He showed me around some of his guitars, equipment, i met Dallas (again) and maybe some other people. But mainly it was just Edge and I, we talked and had dinner and drinks even.
So finally i asked him the burning question, "are you guys going to release this album known as SOA?" And to that he said....well i think he said anyway.....NO. At least that's how i interpreted it. Im not really sure what his exact words were. I woke up thinking they would release something but not SOA. But yet, some of the very songs they had previously mentioned would be on SOA might be played on tour, since they were practicing them in front of me! Maybe they are just calling it something else?
Im not saying my dreams come true or anything like that. Even though sometimes they do, and i have some really wild "deja vu" moments as a result. Before i was having these wild dreams that were taking place out in the desert. I even wrote a story about it....or at least i tried to.....so i kept looking up pictures and some of the desert formations i had seen were in Utah. I think i had been there once as a kid, maybe 25-30 years ago. So i have this vacation planned for the first week of june, not sure where i was going to go but i wanted to go and see these mountains i had been dreaming about. Then out of the blue (at least to me anyway since i had no idea they were going to do this) u2 announces they are playing Salt Lake City on june 3rd. So of course i buy tickets, and im going to see these places i dreamed about on the way. Not sure what any of this means. I know nothing more than anyone else here, of course. But i do know this much...dreams are fun....especially mine.
I'd totally buy that.
